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RBTL Presents: Review Blog Tour: Atlas by Becca C. Smith

Title: Atlas
Author: Becca C Smith
Series: The Atlas Series Book #1
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Red Frog Publishing
Release Date: Nov 2013
Edition/Formats Available In: eBook & Print
Blurb/Synopsis:
Kala Hicks never imagined she’d be fighting demons, angels and
gods when she joined the Navy. But when her elite covert military
team is on a mission aboard Air Force One and Kala is forced to shoot
the President her life changes forever.
The moment the President is killed the Titan god, Atlas, speaks to
Kala, telling her that she has to do his job by committing one act of
atrocity every four days… or the world will end. Kala faces off
against creatures of legend; from demons determined to make her fail
and plunge the Earth into chaos, to angels who don’t trust her to
do the job and are willing to kill her to claim it for themselves.
Pitted against the forces of good and evil, Kala must choose
whether to save the world by doing the unthinkable, or sit back and
let it burn.
Four days later, she’ll have to do it again.

I received this book as part of a blog tour to give an honest review.

So I have to only hope that maybe there is a book two in the works?

I literally was sucked into this book from the beginning and did not want to put it down. I love Greek lore, and this one just blew me away.

The main character Kala Hicks is a no nonsense woman who is part of a special ops elite team. After a night of drinking she finds her self in bed with Jack, and thinking that she is having hallucinations. But are they truly hallucinations? Then the team gets called out to do a mission unlike no other. The equipment they have is just awesome, and makes you wonder what exactly is going on. After the mission is done that is when Kala's life is turned upside more than it was before. Demons, Malaks, Angels, are all after her. She has a mission that has to be carried out or the world ends. How sucky is that? You get more a back story with Kala than you do with Jack. And I would have liked more of Jack only because of what he knows. I really enjoyed how Kala was a smart-a$$ even when she was face to face with the "King" of demons. I would have been shaking in my boots lol. The story line is very different than from others I have read and I liked that.

The story is fast paced, and it doesn't slow down not even when the count down begins!

If you enjoy the paranormal, fantasy, Greek, a story that will keep you wanting to find out more as what is all going on? And an ending that makes you want more of the story than you have to get this book.

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Becca C. Smith received her Film degree from Full Sail University
and has worked in the Film and Television industry for most of her
adult life. In 2010 Becca published her first novel, Riser followed
by the sequel, Reaper, in 2011, and the finale, Ripper in 2013. In
2012 Becca wrote the children’s novel Alexis Tappendorf and the
Search for Beale’s Treasure. She is also the co-author of the teen
graphic novel Ghost Whisperer: The Haunted. Becca currently lives in
Los Angeles, CA with her husband, Stephan and their two cats Jack and
Duke.

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Excerpt

End of Chapter 3:

Very carefully, Jack opened the door that led to the President’s
office.
What awaited them was terrifying.
President Jareth Wilton stood behind his desk. He was wearing a
vest that held five grey bars of C-4 wired into a bomb. Wilton was a
tall man, well over six feet with stark black hair and a long face.
He was a young President, only fifty years old, but he looked like
he’d aged twenty years since the last time Kala had seen him at a
press conference, with dark rings under his eyes and worry lines on
his forehead.
But his smile was what made the scene surreal and horrific. His
thin lips were grinning as if he’d just climbed Mt. Everest.
President Wilton stared directly at Jack as the door swung open
the rest of the way. “I figured it out! I figured out how to break
it! No one will ever have to do what I’ve had to do again! Do you
realize what this means?”
Kala knew then and there that the man was cracked. Figured what
out? Break what? He was rambling like a mad man.
But the more frightening moment came when Jack responded back to
Wilton. “Killing yourself is impossible. People have tried that in
the past.”
Not only was President Wilton talking crazy, but apparently Jack
knew his language and was responding accordingly.
Kala noticed that Wilton’s eyes lit up when Jack spoke. “You’re
the one they sent to replace me.”
Jack nodded.
What? Kala was seriously confused.
Kala spoke up, “What’s going on Jack?”
Replace him for what?
Jack didn’t acknowledge Kala or the rest of the team, which was
shifting uncomfortably behind him.
Wilton shook his head, serious. “You can’t do it. You have to
let me detonate this bomb. We have to crash the plane! It’s the
only way to stop it!”
“You can’t stop it!” Jack yelled back.
“I can and I will!” Wilton talked into an earpiece. “NOW!”
The plane nose-dived.
Everyone jolted forward and stumbled from the force of it.
Jack barked orders, “Lali get up to the Flight Deck and by any
means necessary take over this plane!”
Lali paused for a second, she looked more confused than Kala felt,
but after a moment to gain her bearings as the plane was falling
fast, she managed to high-tail it out of the room and up to the
Flight Deck.
Kala was sure they’d hit ground at any moment.
Jack aimed his gun at the President’s head.
Wilton was frantic. He ducked behind his large oak desk that was
bolted to the ground.
“You can’t kill me! You’ll ruin everything!” Wilton
yelled.
Jack turned to Kala and Derek. “No one shoots him but me!”
Kala kind of nodded, but she was in shock at the fact that they
were about to flatten a part of the capital with Air Force One. She
really didn’t care what Jack was saying. She couldn’t let
President Wilton set off that bomb and kill thousands.
Jack shot at the desk, trying to hit the president, but he didn’t
come close.
Only Kala could make a shot like that and not get them all killed
from shooting a hole through the plane.
Kala and Derek made eye contact. Kala could tell Derek was
thinking the same thing. He whispered so only Kala could hear, “Do
it.”
Kala’s nod was barely perceptible.
Jack saw her and his eyes went wide. “Kala STOP!”
Kala shrugged. “I can’t let him do this, Jack. I’m sorry.”
Only the top of Wilton’s head was showing.
It was enough.

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